| Title: | DECWINDOWS 26-JAN-89 to 29-NOV-90 |
| Notice: | See 1639.0 for VMS V5.3 kit; 2043.0 for 5.4 IFT kit |
| Moderator: | STAR::VATNE |
| Created: | Mon Oct 30 1989 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Dec 31 1990 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 3726 |
| Total number of notes: | 19516 |
I seem to be fighting a losing battle with the Dialog Box...
I provide an alternate translation table for the tab key
via the resource "grabMergeTranslations" (or whatever), but
it doesn't take effect. That is, my action routine is not
called. However, if I change the action routine name to
a bogus name, I get a warning that the action routi can't
be found. So it seems that the widget is doing something with
my translation table, but what?
Has anyone else been successful in providing different
translations for the tab and shift-tab keys?
Dave
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| 1113.1 | AITG::DERAMO | Daniel V. {AITG,ZFC}:: D'Eramo | Sat Jul 15 1989 00:30 | 11 | |
Welcome back.
I had a window widget with a translation for the tab key,
but the parent dialog box prevented the window widget
from seeing the tab key press. I asked how to get around
this in CLT::DECWTOOLKIT 197.4 and Leo answered in 197.5.
With that UIL change to the dialog box the window widget
got the event and its translation worked.
Dan
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| 1113.2 | LEOVAX::TREGGIARI | Sat Jul 15 1989 14:10 | 5 | ||
Why don't you post your alternate translation table here so we
can look at it.
Leo
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| 1113.3 | Voila! | DEMON::BURLEIGH | Tue Jul 18 1989 01:55 | 22 | |
The translation table, specified in the UIL file, is:
translation_table('~Shift<KeyPress>0xff09: NextField()',
'Shift<KeyPress>0xff09: PreviousField()');
The action table, in the C program, is:
static XtActionsRec actions[] = {
{"PreviousField", PreviousField},
{"NextField", NextField}
};
The action routines do not get called when I press tab or shift-tab
in a text widget contained in the dialog box. However, if I change
the action table to contain "Foo" in place of "PreviousField", for
example, then I get a message at run time to the effect that the
action routine can't be found...
Dave
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| 1113.4 | LEOVAX::TREGGIARI | Tue Jul 18 1989 08:44 | 12 | ||
Looks OK to me. Two things I can think of:
1. You haven't changed the DwtNgrabKeysyms argument from its
default value have you? (the default value "grabs" for Tab...)
2. Does this dialog box have a dialog box ancestor? If so, you
need to keep the ancestor from grabbing for Tab (by setting
DwtNgrabKeysyms to NULL) because the server searches for
grabs from the root window down.
Leo
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| 1113.5 | Oui! | DEMON::BURLEIGH | Tue Jul 18 1989 22:33 | 4 | |
That was it! Thanks!
Dave
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